![]() ![]() įollowing this success, scouting parties continually struck deep into English territory, leaving the enemy uneasy and uncertain where the French and their allies would appear next. Early in August Langis and one Richerville led reconnaissance parties, and one week later, on 14 Aug. 1756, Oswego fell – the first victory for French arms. In June 1756 Langis took a prisoner in the vicinity of Fort Oswego (Chouaguen) he returned to the neighbourhood of the fort the following month to help draw up plans for a full-scale attack on it. ![]() After the fort was captured by the British in June 1755, Langis left for New France where, in Verchères the following year, he married Madeleine d’Ailleboust de Manthet, widow of Jean Jarret de Verchères.ĭuring the Seven Years’ War, Langis and his older brother Alexis were employed scouting, taking prisoners, and gathering information on the enemy’s strategy in the Lake Champlain–Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George) area. In 1755 with the rank of ensign he commanded an observation post of ten or 12 soldiers three-quarters of a mile from Fort Beauséjour (near Sackville, N.B.). He began military service in Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) in the early 1750s. Jean-Baptiste Levrault de Langis Montegron followed in the footsteps of his father and three older brothers by choosing a career in the colonial regular troops. LEVRAULT DE LANGIS (Langy) MONTEGRON, JEAN-BAPTISTE, officer in the colonial regular troops baptized 8 Oct. 1723 in Batiscan (Que.), son of Léon-Joseph Levrault de Langis and his second wife Marguerite-Gabrielle Jarret de Verchères d. 1760. ![]()
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